proficiency

[PaulG.]

Reminds me of the limitations the NFL has on using the term "Super Bowl". It's ridiculous if you ask me.

[jcarmody]

We're hiring again, so it's happening again. 😄

Me: (showing a block diagram) What's this?

Candidate: A While loop?

Me: No.  It's a For loop.  What's this?

Candidate: An If statement?

Me: No.  It's an Event structure.  What's this?

Candidate: [something something] timing?

Me: No.  It's a numeric indicator.

[Gregory]

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@jcarmody wrote:

We're hiring again, so it's happening again. 😄

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3 years lab view experience*

*Pressed the run arrow multiple times to run a colleague's code periodically

Not surprisingly, the ones who actually spell it "LabVIEW" tend to have a much better idea what's going on!

[thoult]

My internal recruiter now knows to distrust the ones who cannot capitalise, and to ask a few questions of the applicant before coming to me.

I thought this was a reasonable start to pass on to him: http://inusolutions.com/labview-for-recruiters/ ... I disagree with the bit about CVs though!

I came across one absolutely fantastic CV recently which concisely described a major refactoring, including the use of QMH.

[JÞB]

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@jcarmody wrote:

We're hiring again, so it's happening again. 😄

Me: (showing a block diagram) What's this?

Candidate: A While loop?

Me: No.  It's a For loop.  What's this?

Candidate: An If statement?

Me: No.  It's an Event structure.  What's this?

Candidate: [something something] timing?

Me: No.  It's a numeric indicator.

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Must be a problem with HR screenings process.🤣

HINT: My resume was  booted 

[jcarmody]

Jeff, 

The candidate was to be a Manufacturing Engineer, not the Manufacturing Test Engineer (or, whatever they call it) that we discussed.  Are you moving to un-boot your resume?  I'll whisper in another few ears...

Jim

[JÞB]

Senior Manufacturing Test Engineer position in Wilson, NC

and

SR. MANUFACTURING TEST ENGINEER ... Location: City: Wilson, State: NC

But perhaps, I miss read something?  You can't trust everything you read on the interweb.

If I faulted the hasty application let me know.

[AeroSoul]

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@crossrulz wrote:

I'm with you.  I have seen college students claim they know LabVIEW and then I am spending weeks undoing the mess they made because they had no clue what they were doing.

To be honest that's how i started. My previous boss once came to me and said something like: "I heard you did something in one of them labviews, could you do that for one of our clients?" (maybe not so cartoonish). 

Tried saying that i only used it in college once to read a pyro camera and for masters to read a strain gauge, but i was still put on the project. That's when my posting on this forum started 😄

[crossrulz]

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@AeroSoul wrote:

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@crossrulz wrote:

I'm with you.  I have seen college students claim they know LabVIEW and then I am spending weeks undoing the mess they made because they had no clue what they were doing.

To be honest that's how i started. My previous boss once came to me and said something like: "I heard you did something in one of them labviews, could you do that for one of our clients?" (maybe not so cartoonish). 

Tried saying that i only used it in college once to read a pyro camera and for masters to read a strain gauge, but i was still put on the project. That's when my posting on this forum started 😄

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That's slightly different from what I think I was referring to.  Your situation is a common one: "You've done it once, so you're the expert."  What I commonly complained about was people coming in claiming to be experts when all they did was one class in college or one horribly written tiny project.  Even more of a complaint was people who used an application written in LabVIEW and they then claimed they knew LabVIEW.

[AeroSoul]

That's exactly my experience tho, except that i don't claim to be an expert 😛

College course was reading a pyro cam output and we bodged that one together so it maybe kinda worked. The master's degree was inherited from some doctoral student (and that code was a shitshow, one VI of mostly empty space and islands of code in the vast emptiness).

Hell even the project i was hired for AND wrote seems like a nightmare to me now, 2 years later. I don't even have a CLAD either 😄